An evaluation of various methods for adjective-nouns composition (Une \'evaluation approfondie de diff\'erentes m\'ethodes de compositionalit\'e s\'emantique) [in French]

Most ``babies'' are ``little'' and most ``problems'' are ``huge'': Compositional Entailment in Adjective-Nouns

On Hidden Semantic Relations between Nouns in WordNet

The paper presents an effort on transferability of noun–verb and noun–adjective derivative and semantic relations to noun-noun relations. The approach relies on information from semantic classes and existing inter-POS de…

Exploring the value space of attributes: Unsupervised bidirectional clustering of adjectives in German

The paper presents an iterative bidirectional clustering of adjectives and nouns based on a co-occurrence matrix. The clustering method combines a Vector Space Models (VSM) and the results of a Latent Dirichlet Allocatio…

Interacting Conceptual Spaces I : Grammatical Composition of Concepts

The categorical compositional approach to meaning has been successfully applied in natural language processing, outperforming other models in mainstream empirical language processing tasks. We show how this approach can …

On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs

We use large-scale corpora in six different gendered languages, along with tools from NLP and information theory, to test whether there is a relationship between the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns and the adjecti…